The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.